Bernie Sanders Says Medicare for All Would Provide "Quality Care" During Pandemic

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70. Reality Check

So How Much Would Medicare for All Really Cost? Good Question.

https://www.managedcaremag.com/archives/2019/12/so-how-much-would-medicare-all-really-cost-good-question

We can debate how much profit is "fair" for pharmaceutical companies that invent new life-saving drugs or companies whose biomedical scientists and engineers design new medical equipment and bio-related components, but Bernie's constant harping on $100 billion for the drug and insurance companies pales in comparison to the overall cost of what he proposes. You could confiscate every single dime of their profit and it wouldn't even make a dent in what it would cost the country to implement his (or Warren's, for that matter) Medicare for All over the next decade.

It smacks of a woeful inability to add up large numbers at best or blatant demagoguery at worst...neither of which I find attractive attributes for a serious candidate to possess. Until Bernie and his most ardent supporters start getting a lot more realistic and start coming up with much more doable dollar signs then this is all just blowing smoke. Most decent people would like to see everyone have some form of at least basic rudimentary healthcare at a minimum, but many of us prefer real solutions to pie-in-the-sky pipe dreams.